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enHandel's fairy doorhttp://interactive.wxxi.org/blogpost/handels-fairy-door
<p>Maybe I’m too scattered to concentrate on reading a novel. Maybe I’m becoming too obsessed by blogging. Maybe I’m going through a phase. Whatever the case, I’ve been reading a lot of short stories lately, flipping through Anne Panning’s new collection Super America and the new anthology edited by Stephen King, The Best American Short Stories 2007. </p>
<p>Writer Anne Panning speculates that since we usually expect novels to end on a happy note, short stories provide a vehicle for loneliness and bleakness in a way that novel can't. </p>
<p>The thought crossed my mind the other day when I picked up the November 19th New Yorker and started reading Antonya Nelson’s engrossing short story, “Or Else.”</p>
<p><a href="http://interactive.wxxi.org/blogpost/handels-fairy-door" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://interactive.wxxi.org/blogpost/handels-fairy-door#commentsAnne PanningAntonya NelsonMessiahStephen KingTue, 27 Nov 2007 22:10:59 +0000Brenda Tremblay184 at http://interactive.wxxi.org